KR and Data Base Research

• Both “represent” knowledge

• Data bases contain only “ground literals”

  • No disjunctions
  • No quantifiers

• Data base schema provide quantified information

• Deductive data bases include implications

• Data base concerns -

  • Efficient access and management of large data bases
  • Concurrent updating

• KR concerns -

  • Expressivity
  • Effective reasoning

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